The cup of ghosts
By: Paul Doherty
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Mathilde of Westminster
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781845059279
Subjects: Edward; Fiction; II,; Women physicians; Ladies-in-waiting; History
Description: By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, who married the feckless Edward II, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life. Many years later, when the glory is gone and all that remains are bittersweet memories, Mathilde looks back and chronicles her turbulent life. She has a keen eye for symptoms and causes - and not just the medical kind. With her sharp, suspicious intellect ready to distinguish between a fatality and an unnatural death, Mathilde is confronted by a host of chilling murders, personal danger and the murky intrigue that lies at the heart of the English and French courts at the beginning of the fourteenth century.